Friday, January 27, 2012

Welcome to Week 46 of Paint Party Friday!! What a party last week - over 90 painters! Wow!! It is great to have you new PPFers join us and wonderful to see so many people coming back each and every week. And the art! And the talent! Fabulous!!!

For new paint players, (and any of you who have previous asked but who slipped through our cracks or crevasses or chasms....) if you would like to be listed on the left sidebar of Paint Players, please send us an email (on right sidebar) or ask in the comments and we will try to be sure to make that happen. (And if we haven't by next week, a friendly reminder might be necessary...)

It is also great to see how adventurous and open to experimentation you all are - our poll showed that the majority of you are willing to try any shape of canvas. Rectangles are otherwise the most popular choice. Thinking about shapes... we started to wonder about what shape paint brushes you like best?

A couple of little housekeeping notes on comments. Internet Explorer and Blogger seem to be spatting again and causing some of you to have problems leaving comments. Switching your browser to Chrome seems to alleviate these issues. We were using Chrome so we haven't noticed the problems. Maybe using other browsers might also help but we haven't tried.

Also Blogger seems to have changed their captcha/word verification on some design layouts so you have to scroll down through a window to find the darn word. And those words seem to get longer every day! The other word verification system captcha we find almost impossible to read - and we ARE humans! Most PPFers love commenting and everyone really loves receiving your comments. With a group this big, anything that slows us done as we "work the room" makes it less likely for people to stop and chat. We don't use captcha or word verification and have never had any problems so we think it worth turning off. However, we all want to feel secure. The "comment moderation" settings are another way to protect yourself by looking at and approving your comments before they are published. EVA uses them, Kristin and PPF don't. PPF has had almost no spam, maybe none. (Thank you!) EVA noticed that each time she turns it off, some spam seems to sneek through. Something to consider to make commenting easier for us all?

Please make sure to use your post URL address NOT your blog home page URL address as there are many late visitors who get confused as to which post is for PPF when they arrive (after Friday) at your website. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Linky, an explanation of how this tool works can be found on Week 1 and Week 2 Check-Ins.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Welcome to Week 45 of Paint Party Friday! 2012 is really off to an awesome painting and partying start!

In last week's fun poll, we learned that most of us are not very superstitious, at least not about Friday the 13th! We heard about superstitions new to us and strange things that happen to some of you. (We really want to watch Robin walking down the street when she is angry to see the streetlights blow out!)

In last week's links, Netty posted her new paintings on triangular canvases given to her by Valerie-Jael. Triangular! That was the first time we had seen triangular canvases. And it made us wonder - what shape do you prefer to paint on? And bonus points (haha) for telling us in the comments about the strangest shape you've painted on! ;)

Please make sure to use your post URL address NOT your blog home page URL address as there are many late visitors who get confused as to which post is for PPF when they arrive (after Friday) at your website. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Linky, an explanation of how this tool works can be found on Week 1 and Week 2 Check-Ins.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Welcome to the Friday the 13th edition/Week 44 of Paint Party Friday! It's wonderful to see the new year start with a number of new painters joining us for the first time! Welcome! And Welcome back to everyone who has been here before - great to see so many familiar faces already in 2012.

Wow! We were blown away by some of your answers to last week's poll. 11 (Eleven!) of you want to paint a painting a week! Quoting Oprah - "You go girls!"﻿ - PPF is here to help keep you accountable for your efforts. Many others want to paint at least one painting a month. And most of us just want to paint! (Yay!!!)

Since PPF falls on Friday the 13th this week, we thought we'd have a fun poll and ask about your superstitions - if you have any!

Please make sure to use your post URL address NOT your blog home page URL address as there are many late visitors who get confused as to which post is for PPF when they arrive (after Friday) at your website. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Linky, an explanation of how this tool works can be found on Week 1 and Week 2 Check-ins.

We hope you have a great time at the party and that Friday the 13th brings you only GOOD LUCK!

Some of you talked about wanting to paint a specific number of paintings in 2012. Gloria has twelve (12 for 2012?) in mind... (though we suspect she may paint more...) and Mary mentioned her lofty goal of a painting a week. What about you? Do you have a specific number of paintings that you want to paint in 2012?

Please make sure to use your post URL address NOT your blog home page URL address as there are many late visitors who get confused as to which post is for PPF when they arrive (after Friday) at your website. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Linky, an explanation of how this tool works can be found on Week 1 and Week 2 Check-ins.

Have a fun time at the party! We've set out celery and carrots sticks to make up for all those cookies last month...